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<p></p>
  Utility class with functions to help parse RSS and Atom feeds.
  
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<a class="signatureLink" href="#dateCheck()">dateCheck</a>(x:XMLList, f:Function):Date</div>
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   Checks to see if a piece of XML that should be a date is empty.</div>
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<a class="signatureLink" href="#nanCheck()">nanCheck</a>(x:XMLList):Number</div>
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   Checks to see if a piece of XML that should be a number is empty.</div>
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<a class="signatureLink" href="#nullCheck()">nullCheck</a>(x:XMLList):String</div>
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   Checks to see if a piece of XML that should be a string is empty.</div>
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<a class="signatureLink" href="#xmlToCategories()">xmlToCategories</a>(x:XMLList):Array</div>
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   Checks to see if a piece of XML that should be a string represents
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<code>public static function dateCheck(x:XMLList, f:Function):Date</code><p>
   Checks to see if a piece of XML that should be a date is empty.
   If so, returns null. If not, parses the string into a date using
   the specifid date parsing function.
   
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<td width="20px"></td><td><code><span class="label">x</span>:XMLList</code> &mdash; The piece of XML to test.
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<td width="20px"></td><td><code><span class="label">f</span>:Function</code> &mdash; The date parsing function to use to parse the string if
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<td width="20"></td><td><code>Date</code> &mdash; null if the date is emply, otherwise a date object created
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<code>public static function nanCheck(x:XMLList):Number</code><p>
   Checks to see if a piece of XML that should be a number is empty.
   If so, returns NaN.
   
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<td width="20px"></td><td><code><span class="label">x</span>:XMLList</code> &mdash; The piece of XML to test.
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<td width="20"></td><td><code>Number</code> &mdash; null if the number is emply, otherwise the value of the XML
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<code>public static function nullCheck(x:XMLList):String</code><p>
   Checks to see if a piece of XML that should be a string is empty.
   If so, returns null.
   
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<td width="20px"></td><td><code><span class="label">x</span>:XMLList</code> &mdash; The piece of XML to test.
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<td width="20"></td><td><code>String</code> &mdash; null if the string is emply, otherwise the value of the XML
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<code>public static function xmlToCategories(x:XMLList):Array</code><p>
   Checks to see if a piece of XML that should be a string represents
   categories. If it's empty, return null. If not, parse the string
   into an array of category objects.
   
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<td width="20px"></td><td><code><span class="label">x</span>:XMLList</code> &mdash; The piece of XML to test.
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